I'm excited at the new JFK - ABQ route. I fly LGA-DFW-ABQ about 4-5x a year, and would love to try this new route.

With flights from NYC to ABQ at about 280, can anyone venture a guess how much Jetblue would charge for the non-stop flights? I would certainly be willing to pay a premium, but not if the premium is something outrageous.

NYC to ABQ won't be outrageous. On par with JFK to PHX in pricing. Considering it is actually slightly less distance, could be a tad less.

Direct routes often cost less because you burn more fuel when you have multiple legs.

JFK to ABQ is a very nice add to a location which hasn't seen non stop service before I presume.

A lot of the United States have towns and cities that are developing and ABQ was one of those markets prime for growth. Hopefully in JetBlue's next phase we see more routes in other states with no coverage in those markets where JetBlue can find enough market share. JetBlue still has aircraft orders and so it will definitely be adding even more routes as time goes on.

Both JetBlue and Delta serve Phoenix for $280 at times non stop. Price varies depending on date of course. JetBlue should be competing on existing costs and shouldn't be any higher than connecting carrier service.

Obviously if the route is highly desirable they could potentially charge a price premium but I don't see that happening. And I don't expect anything significant. Just what I believe.

Fare is $66 for a limited time

FLL - no
MCO - no
AUS - doubtful
BOS- possible
LGB - maybe on the e190, but considering LAX is already saturated, i doubt it.

Fares are well priced, I may end up on the first ABQ - JFK flight on 4/22 which currently has a ton of empty seats. The fare is $130, which is cheaper than AA which is $146 (and includes a stop at the beautiful DFW airport).

ABQ has plenty of space, if B6 wants to add more flights. I do think it's a odd expansion choice for B6, since I can't see much demand for more than 1-2 direct flights to ABQ from NYC/BOS.

So I ended up booking the ABQ - JFK flight on 4/22, and they changed the time on me. The flight was originally scheduled to depart at 11:55pm arriving JFK at 5:57am, but now will depart at 11:10pm and arrive 5:12am. I'm kind of annoyed, as the flights on all days after 4/22 are showing 11:55, and there's a big difference to me between arriving at 5am or 6am.

Does anyone know why there was a change?

A schedule change of 45 mins is nothing. Should be happy it is not several hours.

Though if it were several hours, the t&c open wide for re-booking, no? (Though with the low frequency you're not going to do any better getting there when you want to, unless the wide open t&c include endorsement.)

(I see sbm12 circling... )

I may be annoyed, but its still the only non stop service that ABQ has to any NYC airport. I do wish the times were better, but hopefully we will see Jetblue expand service to ABQ and more/better schedules will be added. I'm a bit excited about taking the initial flight.

I booked this flight for May and I am pumped as well, especially with the point bonus.

The flight was great, it's the only flight out of ABQ at that time (the last flight out is maybe 9pm) so security line was nonexistent. They had a little party to celebrate the first flight out and everyone received a goody bag. The bag was slightly disappointing, consisting of some Albuquerque tourism items (pen, pad, magazine, and some weird pasta) and a jetblue reusable cold cup filled with a luggage tag, earbuds, and green confetti. There was free champagne once we reached 10k feet, then they randomly selected 3 seats to win a few prizes (RT tix on Jetblue flights and an American Girl doll that had some connection to Albuquerque), which I didn't win but was a really nice gesture. The crew was friendly and seemed genuinely excited to be there. We had an on-time departure and arrived at 5am into JFK. The flight was about 80% full.

Through Wednesday there is a $99 sale on ABQ-JFK flights, so I've booked another trip in May. The strange thing is, on my return flight there was only middle seats available. I wonder if the route is selling that well that they are 90% capacity a month in advance?

Excellent!!!! I'm glad to hear that. I'm so extremely happy for it. I'm sure those route has done extremely very well. Give it some more competitive against UA out of EWR. Perhaps, B6 will have a second flight sometime in the future.

When I booked my flight it seemed pretty full. But that could be because some seats may be blocked for some reason. We'll see how everything goes.

Has anyone been on this flight lately? I'm very curious as to how this will do.

I've taken it several times, and will be flying ABQ - JFK on July 8th. I'll report back, but based on pricing, the lowest fare I've had was $99 (after the launch they ran a special sale) but low fares are around $110-130 each way. The flights I've been on have been ~90-95% full. There is demand for the flight, at one point I was hoping AA would match so I can use some AA miles, but I find that unlikely for now.